Word: rigidities
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...rigid pattern has been established: the Administration routinely makes use of the committee to press charges against radical students, and the Faculty always ratifies whatever the committee proposes-except the one time when CRR spokesmen suggested a mild statement of Administrative and Faculty responsibility...
Flexible Scholar. Burns has already unified the Federal Reserve behind this policy. When Nixon appointed him, Burns was known as a rigid, terrible-tempered conservative; capital gossips predicted a wave of resignations from the Federal Reserve staff. Instead, Burns has won the admiration of staff economists by working them hard but listening closely to their views. The governors grant Burns their full respect. He is a stickler for clarity, who, according to one insider, sharply asks "What do you mean by that?" of speakers at Federal Reserve meetings...
Contrary to widespread impressions in the United States, he said, the regime has not stamped a rigid political line on Greek education. The mass dismissals of professors occurred, he said. when the government lowered their mandatory retirement age from 70 to 65 in order to close the "generation...
...mountain itself, the most common injuries used to be simple fractures of the lateral malleolus, or anklebone, and low-level spiral fractures of the tibia and fibula. But now that higher, more rigid ski boots are in style, doctors are encountering the more serious "boot-top fracture," in which the tibia and fibula are snapped well above the ankle. A simple ankle fracture takes six to eight weeks to knit properly; a simple boot-top break can require as long as 16 weeks...
Field commanders complain that soldiers lack aggressiveness and sometimes even refuse to fight. One colonel said that some of his men were "like foreigners," speaking a language utterly different from his own. The military's new efforts to relax unnecessarily rigid discipline and humanize the whole system (TIME cover, Dec. 21) may reduce this generation gap somewhat, but it is not only the enlisted men who find the Army wanting. A wonderfully articulate major, who read Timon of Athens during a slow day in Viet Nam, confided to his diary: "Once I was sure that whoever would...